INFORMED CONSENT ?WHY YOU SHOULD OPPOSE SB 277 and any billthat Mandates vaccinations

Informed consent:Vaccination is a medical intervention that carries a risk of injury or death. The right to informed consent to any medical intervention that can kill or injure you or your child is a human right.The right to be informed about medical procedures, and then to decide which medical interventions, if any, are best for ourselves and our families - has been the bedrock foundation of medical ethics for over 100 years. Informed Consent means that we have the right to understand what is to gain from a treatment, that treatment's limits, and as with any medical intervention, its risks. We then have the right to consider that information as a whole, and make our own risk/benefit analysis about proceeding with the intervention. As parents, it is our job to make this analysis on behalf of our children.

The American Medical Association's own Code of Ethics directly opposes vaccine mandates and supports informed consent in all circumstances!!

You currently have the right to Informed Consent. You have the responsibility to become fully informed about vaccines and the right to make voluntary choices about whether or not to risk your life or your child’s life with a vaccine or any other procedure a medical doctor recommends. The more educated you become about vaccines, the more empowered you will become and the better able you will be to stand up for your right to informed consent to medical risk taking.

There are some very important reasons why legally protecting the right to informed consent to vaccination without penalty by the State should be a priority and these crucial points have been left out of the conversation by forced vaccination proponents.

· There are hundreds of new vaccines in development including some of the following in clinical trials: HIV, herpes, E. coli, dengue fever, avian influenza, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, norovirus, cholera, smoking cessation, syphilis, and gonorrhea. If vaccine manufactures and others who profit from forced vaccination convince legislators take away our right to delay or decline a vaccine now, what will our future look like?